TITLE: Lunatic
SERIES: Ruthless Asylum #1
AUTHOR: K.L. Savage
GENRE: Dark Romantic Suspense
RELEASE DATE: January 26, 2021
BLURB.
Mania: A mental illness consisting of episodes of profound excitement, euphoria, delusions, and over-activity.
I deal with highs and lows, but somehow, I end up making the best of it.
My family disowned me, but family is the reason why I’m in Vegas.
Even with my inability to think straight, I end up being in charge of a bunch of runaway mental patients.
Control doesn’t exist if someone is fighting their mind. We have to break in order to mend.
Constantly.
Hence, The Asylum.
A sanctuary for lost causes.
Where crazy can roam free, and compulsions can be let loose.
My nephew says as long as it stays at The Asylum, we won’t have problems.
What fun would it be if problems didn’t exist?
And my problem is in the shape of a dancer, twirling on the front lawn in the middle of the night.
Her laughter is music.
Her beauty is timeless.
And my mania has kicked in overdrive.
When I’m obsessed with something, it’s more than what the normal person feels.
If I can’t have her, no one can.
If I can’t have her, I’ll die.
And I’ll make sure she’ll die too.
I’m a lunatic who has found the living breathing version of his mania.
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I lean back on my elbows and stare up at the sky. The stars twinkle and blink, and the endless abyss is a blanket of black, with slight hues of dark blue. The open space that allows me to see the countless constellations has me a little more mesmerized than I ought to be. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to see something that hasn’t been blocked by bars on the outside of a window.
I’ll never take anything beautiful for granted.
“It’s such a gorgeous night!” a sweet, harmonic voice says from out of nowhere.
I sit up and glance around, staring back and forth to see if I can spot who the voice belongs to. I don’t see a damn thing. “Shit, maybe Reaper is right. I don’t need to be drinking right now.” I set the beer down and rub my eyes, fucking exhausted. It’s hard to sleep when my mind is always on, constantly with the thoughts, and battling the urge to not fucking lose it.
A giggle from my left wakes me up. I stand and run down the steps, wondering where the hell it is coming from.
“So much space!” The angelic tone is a song filtering through the exhaustion.
She’s getting closer now. It’s cold out here, and dark. What if she’s lost? She’ll need help. I spin around again, staring over the outline of the cactuses, but then the scuff and grind of sand sounds from behind me. I turn, holding my breath when the faint glow of the porch light illuminates against platinum blonde hair. Her arms are above her head, and she’s smiling as if she isn’t in forty-degree weather wearing a black dress that blends in with the night. Her skin is the color of cream, the kind someone puts in their coffee.
I’m enamored.
I stand there, staring at the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen, watching her spin and dip like she’s a ballerina. Her movements are smooth and effortless, like waves in the sea, flowing in constant sets of perfection. One arm reaches out, like she’s stretching to touch an object that has her attention, and damn it, I wish it was me. Her back leg lifts and her dress dips low in the back and the material in the front falls over the leg on the ground.
My thoughts start to race, imagining her in my arms in bed, kissing her plump lips that are red from the cold air of the night, grabbing her tits that bounce with every graceful move she makes, and wanting her to be mine.
Only mine.
It’s dangerous when a man like me wants so deeply because I don’t have the ability to let go.
And I know if she were to ever be mine, I wouldn’t allow her to let go.
I’d take her will.
I’d take her freedom.
I’d take.
Until all there was in her world was me. All she could ever want is me.
OUR REVIEWS.
4 Stars from Renee!
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I was pulled right into this story. The story is kind of crazy.
This is a spinoff of the Ruthless Kings MC series so if you want those books are listed here I would recommend reading those books(s) first:
Reaper (Ruthless Kings MC, #1)
Boomer (Ruthless Kings MC, #2)
Tool (Ruthless Kings MC, #3)
Poodle (Ruthless Kings MC #4)
Skirt (Ruthless Kings MC #5)
Pirate (Ruthless Kings MC #6)
Doc (Ruthless Kings MC #7)
Tongue (Ruthless Kings MC #8)
Knives (Ruthless Kings MC #9)
This story is about Zain who is an Uncle to one of the Ruthless Kings from the series listed above. Zain lives a completely different life then the MC but when he has a chance to leave those walls of that life he does. Only he does not leave it alone. He takes a few colorful characters with him and also one he wants for himself. He has an obsession and will do anything to keep that person for himself. The book has a lot going on and if you didn’t read the other series you might not understand the character mindsets and how they work together on assumption and buildup.
I loved these characters and the side characters. I felt I could connect with the characters and the story was a great read.
I recommend this book.
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3.5 Stars from Tiffany!
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A Confusing Start.
K.L. Savage gives her readers a warp speed introduction to the characters of Ruthless Asylum. Ruthless, as in the spin off from her MC series Ruthless Kings, which I haven't read yet. The Asylum is an interesting bunch of characters that I'm sure we'll get to know better.
Zain is the uncle to a Ruthless King and has lived in a different world than most for thirty five years. At his first chance to escape that life, he does, with a handful of friends as interesting as him. I felt Zain was a strong lead character that got diluted as his story went on, in that we didn't really delve into what made him him, but him as an adult now fixated on another. Same with his fixation, Chloe, she is another complicated character that was skated over and felt like she just was and we were to take it at face value.
K.L. Savage takes on a very heavy topic, while skirting a lot of detail which made what could have been a great story feel flippant when reading. There is a lot of insta, as well as a lot of questions that don't get answered. The book is good, albeit rushed in numerous ways. While I haven't read the Ruthless Kings, I do see each book is a character spin off and if the Asylum series is going in that direction, I would have liked way more set up for the characters. Ruthless Asylum reads as a standalone with King's cameos that seemed to fit in nicely. I'm definitely on the fence about reading the next one.
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AUTHOR BIO.
K.L. SAVAGE decided they were tired of looking for the kind
of books they wanted to read. They had an itch that needed to be scratched, and
as every girl knows, nothing scratches better than an alpha.
They write about gritty, alpha males, sometimes their dark sides, and the women
they love.
If you have the same itch, their alpha males should fix that.
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